There has been a new discovery , the water butterfly!
the water butterfly is a very secretive recently found in the atlantic ocean by fisherman. with the great catch also become great wealth and secrets from the public.Now this secret is out!
PREDATOR
Now since the water butterfly is very small in size it has many predators that it encounters the predators that it encounters are:
HUMANS
SHARKS
OCTIPY
STING RAY
MANATAE
GREAT WHITE SHARK
BATMAN (JUST KIDDING!)
SHRIMP
The most threatening predator on this list is the human because of when they go fishing in the ocean and catch them in fishing nets then they die within five minites.
TYPE OF ANIMAL
Herbivore
DIET
COAL
BARNICLES
TROUT
CATFISH
DOGFISH
Facts
they only come out at 12:oopm
they can only produce one offspring every 3
years
are 3 to 4 inches tall
hibernate through winter, summer,fall and most parts of spring
Eggs
Egg of Ariadne merione
Water Butterfly's eggs are protected by a hard-ridged outer layer of shell, called the chorion. This is lined with a thin coating of wax which prevents the egg from drying out before the larva has had time to fully develop. Each egg contains a number of tiny funnel-shaped openings at one end, called micropyles; the purpose of these holes is to allow sperm to enter and fertilize the egg. Butterfly and moth eggs vary greatly in size between species, but they are all either spherical or ovate.
The water butterfly can enlarge its body whe reproducing once a new one is born the mother will in most circomstances die.
the is a 1% chance of survival.
The water butterffy can only see shades of blue. The water butterfly doesn't come out of a cocoon in stead it is hatched from an egg.
Reproduction
The only goal in life for an adult butterfly is to reproduce. The males look for females to inseminate. The females lay eggs.
Within the males' abdomen are the sperm producing organs. When the male mates, a set of "claspers" at the end of the abdomen will open and clamp down on the female's abdomen. Butterflies mate facing in opposite directions with their abdomens attached.
The penis enters the female at the same location where the eggs come out. When the male ejaculates, the semen enters a small storage pouch inside the females abdomen. After mating, the female has about 100 eggs inside her and a pouch full of the male spermatozoa. Once gravid, she will perform a kind of self-fertilization. When she places an egg on the hostplant, as the egg is passing out of her ovipositor, it will pass this pouch. At that instant, one spermatozoa will fertilize the egg and determine its sex. When the egg is first placed on the leaf, it was fertilized less than a second before.
A typical female butterfly will lay about 100 eggs in her lifetime. Some species lay their eggs gregariously (in clusters). Other species lay their eggs individually on widely dispersed plants. One school of thought argues for "survival in numbers" while the other takes the perspective, "don't put all of your eggs in one basket". Both approaches are valid, but only just sufficiently to ensure the survival of the species.
Of the 100 or so eggs that may be laid, only 2% should be expected to survive to become healthy adult butterflies. This figure is reasonable since in the aggregate one egg will replace the female and the other the male. The other 98% will fall by the wayside in the course of their development as eggs, larvae, pupae and emerging adults.
The reasons for this high mortality rate are several. The most important causes include climatic conditions (wind, drought and rain); diseases caused by virus and bacteria; and predators.
Citations:
CentralAmerica.Com." CentralAmerica.Com. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2012. <http://centralamerica.com>.
There has been a new discovery , the water butterfly!
the water butterfly is a very secretive recently found in the atlantic ocean by fisherman. with the great catch also become great wealth and secrets from the public.Now this secret is out!
PREDATOR
Now since the water butterfly is very small in size it has many predators that it encounters the predators that it encounters are:- SHRIMP
The most threatening predator on this list is the human because of when they go fishing in the ocean and catch them in fishing nets then they die within five minites.HUMANS
SHARKS
OCTIPY
STING RAY
MANATAE
GREAT WHITE SHARK
BATMAN (JUST KIDDING!)
TYPE OF ANIMAL
Herbivore
DIET
COAL
BARNICLES
TROUT
CATFISH
DOGFISH
Facts
they only come out at 12:oopm
they can only produce one offspring every 3
years
are 3 to 4 inches tall
hibernate through winter, summer,fall and most parts of spring
Eggs
Egg of Ariadne merione
Water Butterfly's eggs are protected by a hard-ridged outer layer of shell, called the chorion. This is lined with a thin coating of wax which prevents the egg from drying out before the larva has had time to fully develop. Each egg contains a number of tiny funnel-shaped openings at one end, called micropyles; the purpose of these holes is to allow sperm to enter and fertilize the egg. Butterfly and moth eggs vary greatly in size between species, but they are all either spherical or ovate.
The water butterfly can enlarge its body whe reproducing once a new one is born the mother will in most circomstances die.
the is a 1% chance of survival.
The water butterffy can only see shades of blue. The water butterfly doesn't come out of a cocoon in stead it is hatched from an egg.
Reproduction
The only goal in life for an adult butterfly is to reproduce. The males look for females to inseminate. The females lay eggs.
Within the males' abdomen are the sperm producing organs. When the male mates, a set of "claspers" at the end of the abdomen will open and clamp down on the female's abdomen. Butterflies mate facing in opposite directions with their abdomens attached.
The penis enters the female at the same location where the eggs come out. When the male ejaculates, the semen enters a small storage pouch inside the females abdomen. After mating, the female has about 100 eggs inside her and a pouch full of the male spermatozoa. Once gravid, she will perform a kind of self-fertilization. When she places an egg on the hostplant, as the egg is passing out of her ovipositor, it will pass this pouch. At that instant, one spermatozoa will fertilize the egg and determine its sex. When the egg is first placed on the leaf, it was fertilized less than a second before.
A typical female butterfly will lay about 100 eggs in her lifetime. Some species lay their eggs gregariously (in clusters). Other species lay their eggs individually on widely dispersed plants. One school of thought argues for "survival in numbers" while the other takes the perspective, "don't put all of your eggs in one basket". Both approaches are valid, but only just sufficiently to ensure the survival of the species.
Of the 100 or so eggs that may be laid, only 2% should be expected to survive to become healthy adult butterflies. This figure is reasonable since in the aggregate one egg will replace the female and the other the male. The other 98% will fall by the wayside in the course of their development as eggs, larvae, pupae and emerging adults.
The reasons for this high mortality rate are several. The most important causes include climatic conditions (wind, drought and rain); diseases caused by virus and bacteria; and predators.
Citations:
CentralAmerica.Com." CentralAmerica.Com. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2012. <http://centralamerica.com>.